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Repurposing the Gospel Aura: Eminem’s Chrysler Ad Borrows Some Spirit

By Douglas Harrison

…age singing—the same choir, we are led to believe, that we’ve been hearing all along. The stage is backlit, and cloud-like smoke billows gently upward behind the singers, giving the impression of heraldic messengers trailing clouds of glory in their journey from on high. As the rapper takes the stage, the chorus crescendos, breaks off abruptly, and then resumes vocalizing in a low, reverent hum, all heads bowed, as if in deference and awe. Envelop…

A Note to Megyn Kelly & NBC: How to Talk About Conspiracy Theories

By Julie Ingersoll

…prevailing views. They are hostile to authority and expertise, though they mimic mainstream knowledge as they renounce it. Stigmatization is taken as evidence for truth. And there are some people for whom this contrarian character is a key part of the appeal. For a believer, there is a special status to being “in the know” and smarter than the experts. Hofstadter argued that this is deeply American, so maybe we are all implicated. Of course, the “…

“The Lord’s Standard of Morality” Promotes LDS Rape Culture

By Holly Welker

…not be overcome by lust at the inadvertent sight of a naked female thigh. Male missionaries, however, had gym classes scheduled throughout the day. They could and often did walk to and from their classes clad only in the skimpiest of shorts, their T-shirts in their hands or tossed over one shoulder. No one worried about the effect on young women of running into a gang of half-naked men—perhaps because we weren’t considered capable of any action th…

The New Disciples: Report from South Carolina

By Sarah Posner

…o is also the leader of anti-gay, anti-abortion, anti-Muslim The Call revival rallies across the country. In 2002, the Kansas City IHOP was having a “forerunner conference,” Dalton said, “so I went halfway across the United States to find out what God was speaking to me. And it clarified a lot of things.” She came back to Pickens County and founded the Forerunner House of Prayer. Mike Bickle, who played a central preaching role at The Response in…

Does the Right Even Know Why it’s so Threatened by Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce?

By Mary Rambaran-Olm

…hamster wheel is churning fueled by the belief that Swift is somehow subliminally coaxing her Gen Z fanbase into becoming registered voters. What’s worse is that she may be psy-opping and bopping her way into having these new voters register to vote blue rather than red. I don’t know what’s worse, the Right’s conspiracy that Swift is a tool for the Biden administration, or the fact that they need these conspiracies in order to create strategies t…

‘Jesus is my Vaccine’ Has a Millennium-Long History Rooted in Antisemitism

By Chance Bonar

…is guiding America’s history, that surrendering to Jesus will bring spiritual salvation even if your body is sick and dies, and that the government and epidemiologists cannot be trusted to get the job done. Many of these claims are common among conservative Christians in the U.S. whose concern for vaccination and public health coincides with distrust in medical professionals and human authority. Christian distrust in the scientific community and g…

Zeitgeist A Blend Of Skepticism, Metaphysical Spirituality, and Conspiracy

By Michael J. Altman

…iversal humanity. Such a vision dates back to American metaphysicals like Ralph Waldo Emerson and 19th century utopian communities. It’s a vision that Walt Whitman called “the divine ideas of spirituality.” The religion in Zeitgeist draws on multiple sources in an American tradition of metaphysical religion that is skeptical of organized (often Christian) religious institutions and hopeful in its spiritual vision. But it is also a film that draws…

The Immorality of Immortality

By Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

…niqueness of human personhood (captured symbolically in the human face) is alas beyond the capacity of Deep Blue; after all, it cannot even recognize the face of Gary Kasparov. From a Jewish perspective, the critique of disembodied existence was voiced first during the debate about Maimonides in the 13th century when the critics of Maimonides noted that what matters in Jewish life is not only what we think but also what we do and how we relate to…

Will the Taliban Actually Remain Somewhat Moderate This Time?

By Mark Juergensmeyer

…ll of Kabul it’s still not clear how the Taliban will rule. There are several reports of reprisal killings and brutal enforcement of their strict interpretation of Islamic law. But there are also statements of support for women’s rights, protection from reprisals, and overtures of the Taliban leadership to former Afghan leaders like Hamid Karzai to create a coalition government. More significantly, for over a week the Taliban stood aside while 50,…

May We All Be More Like Dick Molpus

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…“classic Dick Molpus” might actually be. And then, by all means, go and commit all the classic Dick Molpuses your little heart desires. The world will be better off for it. First, some background: The Daily Show lampooned former Mississippi Secretary of State Dick Molpus on its Feb. 20 episode. It seems that when Mississippi finally voted, in 1995, to ratify the 13th amendment outlawing slavery, Molpus’ office neglected to send a copy of the legis…